Posts Tagged With: Sound

words like clay

 

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.”

 

~ Wisława Szymborska ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a newly excavated 1800 year old Roman burial urn taken in July 1987.


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the drowning man

 

“Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.”

 

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2015.


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saxophones

 

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2017.


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ladder to the moon

 

“That I could clamber to the frozen moon.
And draw the ladder after me.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.


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a place i called home

 

“There are places we fear, places we dream,
places whose exiles we became
and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.”

 

~Thomas Pynchon ~

 

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rainbows raining down

 

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how
rainbows are made and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.


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élan vital

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.


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a colour of dust

 

“Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!”

 

~ Omar Khayyam ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.


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BEGGAR’S BOWL

 

“It is safer to beg than to take,
but it is finer to take than to beg.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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TRANE

 

“I want to speak to their souls.”

 

~ John Coltrane ~

 

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WORDS LIKE CLAY

 

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.”

 

~ Wisława Szymborska ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a newly excavated 1800 year old Roman burial urn taken in July 1987.


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SING

 

“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody,
it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.”

 

~ Janis Joplin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2014. Courtesy of DePiero and Associates.


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FLIGHTS OF FANCY

 

“Some might think that the creativity, imagination,
and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2010.


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THE MOVEMENT OF AIR

 

“A painter paints pictures on canvas.
But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

 

~ Leopold Stokowski ~

 

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DIMENSIONS

 

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Musee du Louvre in Paris in February 2007.


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WHAT IT COST ME

 

“Passion pursues; love surrenders.”

 

~ Janet Todd ~

 

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IN SEPARATE ROOMS FOR YEARS

 

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

 

~ Michel de Montaigne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.


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OCTOBER OCTAVES

 

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”

 

~ Norman Maclean ~

 

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JUST A LITTLE LICK

 

“She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.”

 

~ Bill Haley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Salisbury, England in June 2007.


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SAXOPHONES

 

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2017.


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